This was one of the things that convinced me to start using Debian more than 15 years ago. They, like no other Unix at the time, had looked really deeply into the problem and come up with a good configuration to best fit all programs and systems. I, as a system administrator who was familiar with this problem, was very impressed by their solution, and I deemed it better than the one I had (which I have since forgotten).
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9....
This was one of the things that convinced me to start using Debian more than 15 years ago. They, like no other Unix at the time, had looked really deeply into the problem and come up with a good configuration to best fit all programs and systems. I, as a system administrator who was familiar with this problem, was very impressed by their solution, and I deemed it better than the one I had (which I have since forgotten).